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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:42:57 +0000 From: "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@...el.com> To: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>, "Tc, Jenny" <jenny.tc@...el.com> CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org> Subject: RE: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Generic ADC support for hwmon Hi Guenter, Thanks for a quick reply. > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:26:48AM -0400, Jenny TC wrote: > > Currently drivers are using custom APIs to communicate with ADC driver. > > So it make sense to have generic APIs to commnicate with ADC drivers. > > This patch introduces generic APIs to communicate with ADC drivers. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jenny TC <jenny.tc@...el.com> > > Hi Jenny, > > Do you have a practical use case ? We have some platform specific component drivers, thermal drivers, battery drivers using this General purpose ADC in the platform. That's why we thought of doing something like this. > > Also, shouldn't those generic ADCs rather be supported through the IO > subsystem ? > After all, hwmon is all about hardware monitoring, not to provide generic ADC > access. In this case, can we try this in iio or mfd subsystem ? Kindly advise. Thanks, Durga -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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